The Best of OMD [Import]

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Disky
• ASIN: B000068CW9
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #394,595 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Electricity

2. Messages

3. Enola Gay

4. Souvenir

5. Joan of Arc

6. Maid of Orleans

7. Tesla Girls

8. Locomotion

9. Talking Loud and Clear

10. So in Love

11. Secret

12. If You Leave

13. (Forever) Live and Die

14. Dreaming

15. We Love You [12" Version]

16. La Femme Accident [12" Version]

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome sonic sculptures, April 30, 2006

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This review is from: The Best of OMD (Audio CD)

There's not much difference between OMD's Best Of and their Singles collection. All the real classics like Maid Of Orleans, Joan Of Arc, Electricity, Souvenir and Tesla Girls appear on both and those few tracks that are different are not their best.

So if you prefer We Love You, La Femme Accident and Genetic Engineering to Sailing On The Seven Seas, Dream Of Me and Walking On The Milky Way, go for this one! You will still get their more experimental first outings like Electricity plus their spacey, magnificent later work from Architecture And Morality.

OMD was one of a slew of original UK synth-duo's that emerged in the early 1980s, along with Yazoo, Eurythmics and Soft Cell. OMD's mark of distinction is their elegant, almost classical structures and mournful moods, best demonstrated by Joan Of Arc and Maid Of Orleans. They were the architects of some truly remarkable and timeless sound sculptures.